"Plastic-Free Powys" is a campaign initiated by Wales Green Party County Councillor Emily Durrant (Llangors, Powys) which highlights the excessive packaging of food and other everyday items. The campaign encourages shoppers to leave plastic packaging at the till in supermarkets.

Wales Green Party's campaign for the upcoming Welsh Assembly by-election at Alyn and Deeside was launched on Friday evening (19th January). Due to the tight schedule of the by-election, the launch was held for members and supporters of the party only.

Emily Durrant, Wales Green Party’s County Councillor and a member of the Plaid-Cymru Green Group in Llangorse, Powys, is challenging her own Council to ditch single-use plastic within the local authority’s premises and in the local community.

“With new studies showing that rainforests are now so stressed that they have become net carbon emitters, the window for cutting carbon consumption is closing more quickly than we thought. It is therefore absolutely vital that the Welsh Government not only debates measures to cut carbon, but quickly puts in place measures which will see a quantifiable reduction in the shortest possible time.”